Hi all,

I have 136 printers to configure using GPP in 20 or so sites. I am planning to use item level targeting (ILT) in Group Policy Preferences set on the TCP/IP address of the client (RDS and Desktop) within a GPO object.

I have two questions:

1. can I use the same GPO object for both the RDS and the fat client desktop's ILT configurations?

2. I have the printer names, locations and IP addresses all ready. Without shelling out $$$ for the SDM solution, is there a way that I can create all of the settings within the policy using powershell or other automated method? I will get a severe case of RSI doing all these settings manually! Maybe there is a way I can edit the XML or the ADM files with all the settings?

Any help will be very much gratefully received.

Many thanks,

Tom

> 1. can I use the same GPO object for both the RDS and the fat client > desktop's ILT configurations?   Yes.   > 2. I have the printer names, locations and IP addresses all ready. > Without shelling out $$$ for the SDM solution, is there a way that I can   Why not supporting such a smart product? :)   > create all of the settings within the policy using powershell or other > automated method? I will get a severe case of RSI doing all these > settings manually! Maybe there is a way I can edit the XML or the ADM > files with all the settings?   It's a simple Printers.XML file - so if you are familiar with XML, just edit it and drop it back into the GPOs sysvol folder. The XML schema is fully documented in MSDN.  

Hi Martin,

THe SDM solution is great but sadly not if you don't have 1000 for such a tool.

I'd love to crack this for deploying 167 printers into our environment.

The Printers.XML file for a printer policy I created in the GPMC GUI is attached.

The only problem I have with continuing to create this in XML for the rest of the devices is that I don't know how to find the UID of each printer as highlighted in yellow. Any ideas?

Thanks for your help!

Tom